Brewed this to 21L using 1kg of Geordie Beer enhancer. Bottled after 3 weeks with 1 teaspoon granulated sugar. Tried after 2 weeks nicely carbed, tastes very malty and so far reminds we of the Brazilian beer Brahma. Will try again on the weekend but prefere this to the European Lager from coopers.

I fancy making one of these to add to my stash but i'm slightly worried the house may be getting a bit too warm at the moment.I wonder if these cooper kits need lower temps to ferment if they use a lager yeast?

I racked the cerveza into two fermentation vessels last night and added a cafettiere of admiral hops to one batch and left the other as is. There is a lot of headspace in each container - will this be ok? I am planning to bottle at the weekend.

This is one of the kits I looked at for my first brew, since this kind of beer is expensive to buy in the UK (OK, bottle-conditioned kit beer isn't going to be Corona but I'm hoping something close).

Would it be worth using a specific lager yeast since this is supposed to be a very light and pale lager? Does anyone know what's different about Sol/Corona to regular lager by the way - what causes their characteristic delicate refreshing flavour?

Obviously the amount of sediment will depend on the yeast you use. I've done this a couple of times with the supplied yeast and got a lot of sediment to be honest (although I could have left it in the fermenter for longer). I'm planning another one at the moment but now I've got temperature control I'm going to throw out the supplied yeast and use some lager yeast instead.

I don't know too much about the style, but personally I think it's more about what it doesn't have than the other way around. There are very few hops in corona/sol and it being pretty middle of the road makes it good as a standard session beer by the bbq. Having a lime wedge gives it a very refreshing kick, however.

stan wrote:got one of these ready to go was thinking of 30g of cascade in secondary any thoughts??

I got one of these cheap (short dated) when I last visited the Homebrew shop in Farnborough. Brewed it standard but dry hopped with 30gms Citra for 4 days. Lovely Citra beer with good malty taste. Go for it!Graham